I've been to jail in an actual city a few times, and I've seen people slam their own heads into walls during my visit. It's actually not that
uncommon, they even have a protocol for 'head bangers' where they'll put you in a restraint chair etc.

He was probably banging his own head into the wall, messed up one good time (on the "bolt"), and accidently killed himself.

Dale Earnhart's fatal wreck comes to mind here. I've heard conflicting reports of him having a prior neck injury. Were his shackles attached to
the van? I've heard conflicting reports about him having a seatbelt. If his shackles were attached to the van and he wasn't belted, a sharp turn
or a heavy bump could have swung him around, resulting in the broken neck. What is Baltimore Police's policy on transporting prisoners?

I believe it would take quite a bit to do that.
Personally, I can't see someone doing that to themselves.

It would take a lot of force typically. The trouble is, that sometime what is not supposed to happen, happens. Like the athletes that you hear dying
from a fatal arrhythmia from being hit in the chest with a baseball. There isn't supposed to be enough force in a baseball to do that, but it does
happen nonetheless.

Put cameras on every cop, every cop car, inside every cop car, and inside every police van. Then, put cameras in every single cell and hallway in a
jail or prison.

Make it a very serious offense to not check the cameras first thing, every day, every where.

But, let the Federal Government own all the footage, and keep it. Kind of like keeping all phone records, conversations, and internet chats/forum
posts.

I mean, having more cameras everywhere all the time has to be a beneficial thing. I remember just recently people were freaking out about the rise of
closed circuit television everywhere, and the feds spying on everyone.

Now, it's the only solution to bring true accountability to the police. People are rioting and burning things and attacking people demanding justice.
The stage is set for the next level of surveillance.

originally posted by: JIMC5499
Dale Earnhart's fatal wreck comes to mind here. I've heard conflicting reports of him having a prior neck injury. Were his shackles attached to
the van? I've heard conflicting reports about him having a seatbelt. If his shackles were attached to the van and he wasn't belted, a sharp turn
or a heavy bump could have swung him around, resulting in the broken neck. What is Baltimore Police's policy on transporting prisoners?

That's also possible.

A crushed larynx is problematic, but it depends how it was crushed. If it was an anterior to posterior compression, then I'd suggest that someone was
in the back of the van tuning him up. If compressed axially, it could have been in concert with his vertebral fractures.

The protesting masses don't care what happened. He could have broken his neck while attempting to grab a cops gun.

If Baltimore is unprotected they will attack.

It's depressing that you got so many stars for that bs

Don't you think, just maybe, after decades of police violence people have a damn right to be suspicious?
And how about this sudden change of story from the other arrestee in the back of the van, who first said Gray was unresponsive, and now says he was
banging his own head against the van?

And how does a prisoner in a van cause severing of 80% of their spine, AND cause the crushing of their own damn larynx?

Unless he hit his own head against the van with enough force to break his own neck, and then managed to find something to slam the front of his own
neck down on to crush his own larynx, I can't see how the hell anyone can claim that he did this to himself.

Crushing of the larynx can only occur from pressure at the front or to the sides of the front of the throat. I CANNOT be done by banging your head
against anything.

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